In her four weeks of life, Madelynn is breathing on her own, eating all of bottles and now we are waiting for her body to be able to regulate it's temperature. After that she can come home!!! She weighs 4 lbs 8 oz and is 17 3/4 inches long. She doesn't cry very ofter, really only when she is hungry. All of the nurses are so impressed with how well she is doing at such a young age and weight.

Madelynn's Arrival

Madelynn made her debut Saturday May 16th at 2:59 pm 10 weeks early. She weighed 3 lbs 4 oz. She was 16 and 1/4 inches long.

Story leading up to her arrival...

Wednesday I took my last two finals early so I could have a four day break before beginning 6 weeks of summer school. Late Wednesday afternoon I noticed Madelynn was not moving around like she usually does. I thought maybe she was just tired from finals with me. Thursday morning I was beginning to get worried but Jason had taked the day off to spend time with me before summer classes started. We had lunch at Chili's and spent the rest of the day at the zoo before we went to Dr. Shanbour's office for the checkup.

Dr. Shanbour told us to to go home and eat dinner and if she hasn't moved 10 times in 2 hours to go back to the hospital to get monitored. After dinner we took a nap, well Jason slept, I couldn't because I was waiting on Madelynn to move. I woke Jason up at 9 to head to the hospital. We were expecting to be back home in a couple of hours. We half jokingly talked about how this could be our trip to the hospital.

We had to stay Thursday night expecting to go home Friday morning. Friday night we expected to home Saturday morning so I could go register for the baby showers. Saturday they did a contraction stress test to see if her heart could handle contractions. She failed the test. The nurse told us I would go in for the c-section in about an hour. Jason was working that day so that would give him plenty of time to get there and ready...so we thought...3 minutes later the nurse came in and said we were going in 15 minutes! Jason walked in, put on his surgery clothes and away we went.

Maddy

Madelynn at 27 weeks

First is her profile

Second is her face

Third is her foot, her left foot was stacked on top of the right foot

Madelynn's 6 month

Here she is at month 6 of hibernation...

OKC Memorial Walk

Grandma Stafford and I got up early to do the Memorial Walk. There were 19,000 people overall participating (marathon, half marathon, relay, and walk)

Snow Cones!!!

We got our first snow cones! I love snow cones, Jason was a little less enthusiastic about the event, but enthusiastic he was!

Flower Beds

Our first time working together in the flower beds! It was a long hot day, but it was a lot of fun, and now the flower beds look pretty good if we do say so ourselves! Ok, so Jason had to do most of the work, because Madelynn was making it a little difficult for me to be bend over and getting and up and down and such. Jason was a trooper! I did do a fine job of supervising though...

Of course Joe and Bob were super helpers, and they helped show Freddy (our garden frog) around the front yard.

Bob and Joe

Bob and Joe, this is the closest they had ever been.
Just this past week they both grabbed ahold of an end of the rope with Jason in the middle and they were tugging. It was a big step!

Jason and Joe

Jason and Joe napping on the couch, aren't they cute!

Homework

A typical day of homework, me working and the boys napping...

They are good encouragers when they are awake though.

Jill's Birthday

Well, instead of buying a new house, I got a stove for my birthday! And I love it!

The House

Well, we started by painting the kitchen. Then we painted to living room, took down the trim and painted it as well...headache. Most recently we put down a new kitchen floor. It wasn't too bad until we (Jason) got to the edges and had to measure and cut and measure and cut... Poor guy was in the kitchen forever bent over, he hurt the next day. I however did roll the rolling pin over the entire floor at least three times. That was a good time, let me tell ya. But it was all worth it!

Bump In My Belly

Baby Walker is that bump in my belly. A couple weeks ago it felt like the size of a softball, now it feels like a canteloupe! I was pretty sure I could feel it moving every now and then in there but wasn't 100% sure. Well Baby Walker decided to let me know he or she is in there alive and kicking...literally. Jason sometimes has to tell me what Baby W is telling me it wants to eat. The other day he told me it wanted chocolate milk.

Joe & The Vet

Recently Joe went to the Vet and got diagnosed with Kennel Cough, bad dog cold. He got over that and took all of his medicine like a good dog. Well I took him back to get his annual shots and his nails trimmed thinking it would be no big deal, right? Wrong. Joe got sedated. I really thought I was going to have to call Jason and tell him Joe had died at the Vet. They gave him a shot to wake him back up, but he wasn't very awake, he was walking sideways. When we got home he just laid on the floor lethargic, Bob enjoyed being able to get right up in his face and not mauled. So when Jason got home, he stayed on the floor. Joe has never been able to contain himself when he sees his dad. He wasn't normal til the next morning.

Joe & Bob

Joe & Bob are still tryin to figure out how to play together. Bob is 6 maybe 7 pounds & Joe is 90 pounds. They are fun to watch, they somtimes just watch each other from a distance, and sometimes they talk & whine at each other trying to get the other to play. Bob was pretty much in shock the first weekend he met Joe. It was the first house other than my parents he had been in, and Joe was by far the biggest dog he had ever come into contact with. Joe on the other hand was thrilled to see a new friend in the house, but wasn't sure if he was a dog or a cat. They now get along and like to eat each other's food. Joe gets jealous if we are petting Bob, and Bob get jealous if we are petting Joe.

Baby Walker Kicked Me

I felt Baby Walker kick me for the first time yesterday during class. I am 16 weeks prego, and Jason and I can't wait til Baby Walker gets here! I took the Drano test (mix urine & Drano) and the color indicated it is a girl. If it is a girl her name is Madelynn Louise Walker. We are clueless if it is a boy.